Do children in heaven stay children forever?

[Effete Snob]

So the Texas attorney general is also a religious philosopher with apparent knowledge to share on dead children and the afterlife.

https://people.com/politics/texas-ag-faces-backlash-for-advice-to-uvalde-families/

Texas AG Faces Backlash for Saying He'd Tell Families Who Lost Children in Uvalde That 'God Always Has a Plan'



I’ve heard quite a few folks opine that the parents will be reunited with their children in Heaven eventually. I guess that will be great for the parents, but it’s got to be weird for the children since their parents will be a lot older than they remember. Also, it kind of sucks that the children do not get to become adults, but have to stay children forever.

My children are adults already, so I won’t have any children in Heaven. That kind of sucks that other parents will have perpetual children in Heaven, but other parents won’t have children. I guess my parents will be kind of bummed out, too, since it looks like all of their children are going to be older than my father, which will be kind of awkward if you think about it, but he died young.

The State of Texas is lucky to have an attorney general who has this all sorted out.

[Mike Nelson]

1. Hmm...

... I always thought it would be just a "soul" - with no specific age. Every soul is the same age. BUT, I have no Earthly idea!

[PXR-5]

2. A local preacher here says everyone in heaven

is the same age, 35.

So you, your kids, grandparents etc will all be the same age.

I don't understand why God tells preachers different things.

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. Or why he just can't come down and tell us himself.

That would just clear everything up, right?

[Effete Snob]

11. So Heaven is like a dating app?

Everyone is 35 and in good shape.

[Retrograde]

15. God's just messing with them

telling them different things, seeing which ones spread the furthest.

But I have a question - for much of humanity's existence, the average life span was less than 35 years - in some societies, a lot less. In medieval and early modern Europe (largely a Christian area) most people didn't even see their 5th birthdays. Wouldn't it to be disorienting to have died as a young girl only to find yourself in heaven, having gone through puberty and all its bodily changes - and now being possibly on the verge of menopause. Has God really thought this all through?

[Effete Snob]

23. You may have the key

Maybe God’s just way in over his head and really has no idea what he’s doing.

He created humans and listens to us pray in case anyone has any good ideas.

I know my ex wife gives him advice on what to do all of the time.

[Karadeniz]

3. What psychics say is that they continue to develop, but I'm not a psychic... I depend on Paxton

Completely for knowledge about the mind of God....

[Effete Snob]

13. Well, maybe Paxton might know

Because Texas is a big state. It’s not like God would tell anyone in Rhode Island.

[RussBLib]

4. such absurdities

people twisting themselves into knots to try to justify their religious ideas.

or, worse, people are so fucking lazy they just call everything God's will, so they don't have to think, or emote. I mean, why mourn the loss of your child if they are now in heaven?

[LakeArenal]

5. Like Vampires?

[Effete Snob]

14. No thanks, I just had a werewolf

[LakeArenal]

18. Delicious

[Effete Snob]

21. Reminds me of eating a wookie

That was a little chewy.

[MerryBlooms]

6. Beware of false prophets. Right now, they're making a fortune

Off dead kids.

[Celerity]

7. There is no reason to have a rational discussion over a hypothetical about a fairy tale.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. Doncha just love people who live in fantasy worlds

[wackadoo wabbit]

10. Using this logic, god also has a plan for fetuses that are aborted /nt

[70sEraVet]

19. God's will.

[Lemonwurst]

12. Heaven - the most ironic scam

Just a moment of reasoning leads to a realization that self-awareness that lasts forever would be a hell unlike any imaginable.

Our singularity is valuable only because of its finality.

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. Oh well, at least the shooter is in Hell. Heaven must be a gun-free zone, so

the NRA and their gun nuts will probably have an eternity to be pissed off.

[Effete Snob]

22. They have guns in heaven

That’s why you are either quick or you’re dead.

[OAITW r.2.0]

24. In Heaven, everyone has the quickest draw.

The results take an eternity of uncertainty.

[Solly Mack]

17. Mass shooters can always claim they did what they did because it was God's plan

or it was God's will or God had his reasons for wanting them to shoot a bunch of people.

They can always call on the people, like Paxton, who claim it was God's will/God's plan/God has his reasons as expert witnesses. They're quite a few among the right-wing who make this claim about everything.

Why not?

If it was God's plan, then surely that makes the shooter an instrument of God and the shooter was simply doing the Lord's work. Mysterious ways and all that.

Surely all those gun-humping religious folks would agree.

[Binkie The Clown]

20. Of course not. They just wait for the next opportunity to reincarnate.

Anyone who thinks otherwise has clearly never watched What Dreams May Come.

[orleans]

26. great movie. nt

[NCLefty]

25. Also: all your family pets... they didn't make it because god didn't give them souls! 🙀

From the Catholics...

We know from the natural light of human reason that the pets we have now will not exist in the new heaven and new earth. The souls that animals have are entirely dependent on their material makeup. As such, they do not continue to exist after bodily death as human souls do. Therefore, all animals that die before the advent of Christ’s second coming will not exist in the new heaven and new earth.

And there couldn’t be any sort of resurrection of these animals since resurrection presupposes a continued existence of some sort. Fido can’t be resurrected and brought into existence from nothing at the same time.

https://www.catholic.com/qa/do-pets-go-to-heaven

Of course, the current pope has apparently changed god's mind on this (funny how they can do that!). From 2014:

Pope Francis confirmed during his weekly address in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square that canines, along with “all of God’s creatures,” can make it to heaven.

The leader of the Catholic Church made the remark in order to comfort a young boy who was mourning the death of his dog, according to the New York Times.

https://time.com/3631242/pope-francis-dogs-heaven-catholic-church/

[orleans]

27. "when children die they do not grow"

(one of the first, maybe the very first, anti-war song i learned when i was a kid)

[Lucid Dreamer]

28. Heaven is whatever you think it is... nobody is wrong, and we don't share heavens.

Freestyle... Everybody is right.
And you can't prove me wrong.